That explains it. I was going to ask who the hell purged the CFSEU but it says it was a joint operation with the RCMP federal serious organized crime unit. Looks like the Federal agency is holding their hand and forcing them to do their job just like with the recent bust in the DTES. This is really good because even Bob Paulson admitted in his exit interview he personally cut funding for organized crime investigation to investigate and instigate bogus terrorist threats. To see the RCMP devote resources to investigate organized crime federally is awesome.
The article states that "The special enforcement unit said the investigation targeted “the criminal networks of members of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club in Nanaimo and their support clubs, the Savages MC and Devils Army MC and their alleged drug trafficking operation on Vancouver Island.” CFSEU said the seized drugs included 7.75kg of cocaine, 4kg of cannabis, 1.9kg of methamphetamine, 248 oxycodone pills, and more."
"The men facing various charges include Kristopher Stephen Smith, 44, of Nanaimo; Sean Oliver Douglas Kendall, 44, from Port Alberni; William Bradley Thompson, 58, from Ladysmith; and William Karl Paulsen, 51, from Campbell River. Thompson has been arrested and released on a promise to appear in court. Arrest warrants have been issued for Smith, Paulsen, and Kendall."
Victoria News is reporting that William Paulsen is from Campbell River but the Indo Canadian Voice posted a picture of him in colours as a full patch member of the Nanaimo Hells Angels. The article also mentioned the Savages MC and Devils Army MC. The Devils Army as a support club for the Hells Angels. Richard Ernest Alexander, the former president of the Devils Army was accused of shooting 30-year-old Saanich man John Dillon Brown in the back of the head on March 11, 2016 in the Devils Army’s Campbell River clubhouse.
His trial started April 2021 but shortly thereafter resulted in a mistrial and the reasons for the mistrial are covered by a publication ban. AYFKM? One guy beat up a crew of Devil's Rejects in the Voodoo Lounge so Priscilla capped him in their clubhouse. Did they give Priscilla her pink gun back or was that seized under the proceeds of bad taste? Wasn't she in that competition Justin Trudeau recently judged? Maybe we need a new judge.
OK so what about Shakerz in Surrey? When ya'll gonna take care of that?
The president of the Devils Army is facing murder charges. He probably dropped a dime on his so called Brothers.
ReplyDeleteHmmm.... perhaps. That's a good point.
DeleteIf he had rolled over on them would be pretty wild, Ricky Alexander has been around HA scene for a long time. Maybe he got tired of never getting a real patch. That and the idea of being his age and going to prison for the next 10 years made him reconsider. This way he doesn't go to prison and with everything he knows it would actually be worth it to pay him the kind of money they spend on someone low level guy like blaze. If he went over it could take a very long time do debrief him, a lot of unsolved crimes and such. A guy like that knows a lot of the answers, even if it's to stuff he's really not supposed to know. "People hear things".It should be fairly easy to make him an offer he would find very hard if not impossible to refuse.
DeleteCompare that with Clay Roueche. These clowns could use a lesson from him. Clay spent almost two years in solitary and wrote a book about personal fortitude:
Deletehttps://www.amazon.com/Book-Indomitable-Virtues-Clay-Roueche/dp/1533607087
Indeed. But the Americans were never going to cut him a break after all the trouble they went to to grab him. Plus he probably couldn't tell them much they could use against anyone down there, or didn't already know. Ricky Alexander could name a lot of names and tell a lot of stories. As long as he's been around, he could really flesh out the unknown history of Red & White here in BC and put more than a few people away for a long time. Recently it seems the cops always know who wacked who pretty quickly, but 20 years ago that wasn't true. "Ernie Ozolins". "Blackie". And others. All cold cases.
DeleteBack then people kept their mouth shut. Now they roll on each other as their MO. They roll on people they hire. Micheal Kramer is in the house.
DeleteThe fact that the rcmp busted the ha on the island. Wow times are a changing.
ReplyDeleteLmao they'll put their own in compromised positions to rat, even tho most of them are the police
ReplyDeleteSadly your probably correct
ReplyDeleteDevils army those guys make me laugh see em all the time here
ReplyDeleteIt seems to me that there is more busts on the Hells Angels do you see this as a new trend?
ReplyDeleteVery much so. The CFSEU stopped making Hells Angel drug busts after the big bust in Kelowna back in 2012. All the other provinces did but BC didn't. Now BC has started again. There must have been a change in local leadership.
DeleteInteresting I wonder if they have a plan to go after them all aggressively. What do you think Dennis?
DeleteOr it could have something to do with coordination with American LE. They've been hitting them with RICO charges, and similar, this year, quite widely
DeleteI'm not sure. There must have been a change in boots on the ground leadership. Manny Mann is just a figurehead. He was doing the same thing Pat Fogarty was because someone in charge was giving him false information. Now there must be someone else in charge who's not compromised. It seems to be a coordinated effort. There are more smaller busts locally. It doesn't seem to be one or two publicity stunts to get the press off their back.
DeleteThe problem with American LE is Operation Fast and Furious. The CIA has infiltrated the DEA and the ATF. They're all compromised now. After the CIA scuttled the Blandon bust, the DEA just started seizing the proceeds of crime to make money and stopped trying to prevent crime. They just wanted to tax it.
This effects us through the Cameron Otis case. They had all that encrypted blackberry evidence on Larry Amero but didn't use it because the American LE pulled the plug just like they did for Blandon. Larry Amero was their guy just like Blandon was whether he knew it or not. Freeway Ricky didn't realize at the time who he was really working for.
Using US Rico in Canada? I'm sure there are ways they can make it work.
DeleteThat's kind of like abusing the Emergency Act. We already have laws in place. We just need to police to enforce them.
DeleteWhat laws in Canada serve as RICO-like laws?
DeleteVery good question. I'm not sure we have anything similar.
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